Dramas on Netflix
Last updated August 10, 2025
Greetings from the Shore
2007 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsTrying to raise tuition money during her last summer before college, Jenny takes a job at an elite Jersey Shore yacht club, where she finds romance with a working-class boy and gets caught up in illegal activities involving Russian sailors.
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$5 a Day
2008 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen con man Nat (Christopher Walken) convinces his straitlaced son, Flynn (Alessandro Nivola), to join him on a road trip, the two learn a few things about each other as they drive to New Mexico, attempting to live on no more than $5 a day.
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The Greatest
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThree months after Allen and Grace Brewer's teenage son Bennett dies in a car accident, his girlfriend Rose shows up on their doorstep, pregnant with his child and seeking shelter and support.
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Brooklyn's Finest
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThree cops -- a burned-out veteran, a narcotics officer with questionable ethics and an undercover detective -- find themselves hurtling toward the same crime scene on one fatal night in this tense, edge-of your-seat thriller.
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Mammoth
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsLukas Moodysson writes and directs this drama centered on three intersecting stories, one of a traveling New Yorker named Leo (Gael García Bernal), another of his surgeon wife, Ellen (Michelle Williams), and also the children of their Filipino nanny, Gloria (Marife Necesito), in the Philippines. A series of dramatic events unfolds after Leo visits Thailand, causing everyone to reexamine their priorities. Sophie Nyweide co-stars.
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The Countess
2008 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBlaming her advancing age for a failed romance with a younger man, 16th-century Hungarian countess Erzebet Báthory begins murdering virgin girls and bathing in their blood, believing that the grim ritual will restore her youthful beauty.
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An Englishman in New York
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsJohn Hurt plays celebrated, iconic gay author-artist Quentin Crisp (the subject of Sting's song, "Englishman in New York") in this pseudo biopic that chronicles Crisp's high-profile move from London to New York's Bowery in the 1980s. Cynthia Nixon, Swoosie Kurtz, Denis O'Hare and Jonathan Tucker also star in Richard Laxton's long-anticipated sequel to the groundbreaking, made-for-television adaptation of "The Naked Civil Servant."
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Ondine
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA fisherman's life is transformed when he catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his nets. As he falls helplessly in love, his daughter comes to believe that the woman is a magical creature.
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Everybody's Fine
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsRecent widower Frank Goode goes on a road trip -- against his doctor's orders -- to connect with his grown children after all four blow off a planned visit. Along the way, he learns some truths about himself and his kids.
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Fish Tank
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThe life of hot-tempered teen outcast Mia takes an unexpected turn when her mother, Joanne, brings home a handsome and mysterious boyfriend named Connor, who pledges to bring sweeping positive changes to the household.
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The White Ribbon
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA year before World War I, a series of strange and brutal pranks threaten to shatter a northern German town's orderly existence. But the residents' response may have even more disturbing implications for the future. Celebrated Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke helms this Golden Globe-winning, sumptuously photographed black-and-white drama that stars Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur and Theo Trebs.
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Ajami
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen their uncle wounds an important clan member, 13-year-old Nasri (Fouad Habash) and his older brother, Omar (Shahir Kabaha), fear he has put their whole family in terrible danger in this moving, Oscar-nominated drama set on the West Bank. A truce is arranged, but Omar must start selling drugs to pay the fine he now owes. Meanwhile, a number of other locals struggle to negotiate the political and social tinderbox of Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood.
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Howl
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsJames Franco steps into the shoes of famed Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in this star-studded biopic centered around Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and the widely publicized obscenity trial that followed its publication in 1957.
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Blue Valentine
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsOnce crazy about each other, Cindy and Dean have now grown apart. Cindy is disenchanted while Dean languishes in the emotional emptyness of their life in rural Pennsylvania. As they muddle through their marriage, they hearken back to the golden days.
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Rabbit Hole
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsIn this raw drama based on David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, Becca and Howie grapple with the realities of life eight months after the death of their 4-year-old son, Danny.
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Cole
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsLooking to escape from his tiny town, aspiring writer Cole Chambers enrolls in a university class in the city, where he falls for a fetching fellow student -- a black woman whose controlling parents don't approve of the match.
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I Am Love
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsFamily dissension, unbidden desire and other tensions bubble to the surface during a patriarch's birthday party. When the seemingly picture-perfect Recchi clan gathers to celebrate the man, the veneer of civility quickly falls away.
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Red Riding Trilogy: Part 2: 1980
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAfter six years of vicious unsolved murders, Manchester policeman Peter Hunter arrives in West Yorkshire to supervise the Yorkshire Ripper investigation and a copycat killer case in this second installment of the Red Riding trilogy.
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The Girl in the Park
2007 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsFor 15 years, Julia Sandburg (Sigourney Weaver) has mourned the loss of her daughter Maggie, who was kidnapped from a park when she was just 3 years old. When a disturbed young woman (Kate Bosworth) enters her life, Julia longs to believe that her little girl has come home at last. Written and directed by David Auburn, this heartbreaking story of love and loss co-stars David Rasche as Julia's long-suffering husband.
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Cemetery Junction
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAfter taking a new job to escape a bleak existence as a working-class stiff in a small English town, Freddie Taylor gets involved in more drama than he bargained for when he runs into his former flame in this inspired coming-of-age tale.
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Peepli Live
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen indigent farmers Natha (Omkar Das) and Budhia (Raghuvir Yadav) stand to lose their land over a loan they can't repay, a government official comes up with a modest proposal: Commit suicide and collect a subsidy that's paid to the relatives of deceased farmers. As Natha weighs his options, a journalist learns of his predicament and the media circus begins. Anusha Rizvi directs this satirical take on a real-life crisis afflicting India's underclass.
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Henry of Navarre
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThis historical drama from director Jo Baier follows the fortunes of Henry of Navarre (Julien Boisselier), a 16th-century French Protestant who led a rebellion against France's powerful Catholic queen, Katherina de Medici (Hannelore Hoger). Lured into a royal marriage of convenience and then betrayed, Henry endures a massacre, escapes prison and eventually rises to the throne as Henry IV, one of France's most enlightened monarchs.
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Badmaash Company
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsMoney can buy lots of things, but it can't always buy respect -- and that's a tough pill to swallow for impatient Karan and his friends, who move from Bombay to New York City to get rich quick in this Hindi thriller.
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Country Strong
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhile on tour to revive her career, country singer Kelly falls for emerging musician Beau and tries to hide their romance from her husband/manager. The love triangle is further complicated by Kelly's vices and the introduction of a young songstress.
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Of Gods and Men
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA group of French Trappist monks making their home in the Algerian mountains have ample reason to believe they're in danger. But their assumption that there can be common ground between Islam and Christianity leads them to remain at the monastery.
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